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Alternative approaches
For those of you who want even more flexibility and are comfortable designing your
own course rather than following the course framework, Ideas in Literature can be
taught alternately:
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• Thematic. Start with Ideas in Literature sections and draw upon the skills
workshops as you choose to sequence and scaffold them.
• Chronological British Literature. Start with the Ideas overview and teach, at a
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minimum, the first selection within each Ideas collection in each unit. Integrate
the reading and writing workshops as you teach those selections. The Teacher’s
Edition suggests other British fiction writers who can be paired within each
Ideas collection.
• Genre/FRQ Type. Group units around short fiction (1, 4, 7), poetry (2, 5, 8),
and longer works of fiction and drama (3, 6, 9). Then teach the other reading
workshops and the Ideas sections as you choose to sequence and scaffold them.

Teaching the Big Idea Workshops

The Big Idea workshops that make up the first part of every chapter are critically
important and are designed to all be taught in order as the skills sequence builds in
difficulty and complexity over the units. Each workshop follows a consistent learning
cycle:
• Skills Focus: A concise and focused skill instruction written in student-friendly
language that includes an at-a-glance reference chart for students.
• Guided Reading and Guided Questions: In the short fiction and poetry units,
the first reading is always a high-interest text. Annotated with Guided Questions
at appropriate points in the work to help prompt students on questions to ask as
they read, these sections scaffold skill development and develop habits of mind
for close reading. (Note: Units 3, 6, and 9 only include the Practice Text and
Focused Questions.)
• Practice Text and Focused Questions: A text with a skill-focused graphic
organizer to help students read with a purpose and practice new reading skills
on their own — in the longer works units, students start here after the Practice
Activity. Focused questions following these readings provide opportunities to
practice literary analysis and apply the focused skill from the Big Idea workshop
in their written interpretations of literature.*

TE-x Welcome to Ideas in Literature

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